Yearbook of European Law, Vol.17, 1997

Yearbook of European law, Volume 17, 1997:

Oxford University Press, under its imprint Clarendon Press, has published volume 17 in its series Yearbook of European Law. The yearbook is divided into three sections. The first is a series of eleven essays covering contemporary issues in European law. The second section updates the regular surveys of legal developments in the European Parliaments, intellectual property, employment and social policy, environmental law, the Brussels Convention, Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Council of Europe. The third section contains a series of book reviews of recent books on European law. There are also indexes to cases and legislation cited in the Yearbook.

Subjects covered in the essays of the first section are wide ranging. They include: Community Directives revisited; Producing 'reverse discrimination' through the exercise of EC competencies; Broadcasting: the creation of a European culture or the limits of the internal market; Enforcement of EC competition law in national courts; An historical and comparative evaluation of the fate of European Union citizenship; State liability for judicial Acts after Factortame (III); The framework Directive on community water policy; EC and US approaches to consumer protection; State aids and general measures; The UK reaction to the Working Time Directive and the interpretation by the European Court of Justice of equally authentic texts drafted in more than one official language.